The Consumption

*Bonus via Prefixmag: A not particularly political track from Das Racist’s Kool AD that’s very worth checking out.

Kudos to Kat Dornian, the music director at CJSW. I took a bit of a different approach this week and mostly stuck to albums on the official playlist she compiles for the station (which includes 100s of CDs in pretty much every genre), and almost everything I checked out was amazing. I ran a bit out of steam near the end, but other than that, I was really quite happy with this one. How To Dress Well still blows my mind, and I think Rhye was a perfect complement to it. Aside from that one, my favourite discovery was probably NiLLA off of Hamilton’s university radio compilation, but there’s a lot of gems here in general.

Johnnie Taylor – I Could Never Be President – The Complete Stax/Volt Singles  ( Stax )

The Coup – The Magic Clap – Sorry To Bother You ( Anti- )
K-Naan* – Waiting is a Drug – Country, God or the Girl ( A&M )
Cody Chestnutt – Under the Spell of the Handout – Landing On A Hundred ( Vibration Vineyard )

Nick Waterhouse – Some Place – Time’s All Gone ( Innovative Leisure )
Menahan Street Band – Sleight of Hand – The Crossing ( Daptone )
zz Ward – Cryin’ Wolf – Til The Casket Drops ( Hollywood )
Joanna Borromeo** – Move Mountains – Kaleidoscope ( Self-Released )

Robert Glasper Experiment – Black Radio – Black Radio Recovered The Remix EP ( Blue Note )
Various* – The Phorce – She’s Bad – Everybody Dance Now Songs From Hamilton 7 ( CFMU )
Why? – White English – Mumps, etc. ( Anticon )

Various* – NiLLA – Vintage 2.0 – Everybody Dance Now Songs From Hamilton 7 ( CFMU )
Rainy Milo – This Thing of Ours – Limey ( Self-Released ) (links to full album download)
Kendra Morris – Concrete Waves – Banshee ( Wax Poetic )

How To Dress Well – & It Was U – Total Loss ( Acephale )
Rhye – Shed Some Blood – The Fall ( Republic )
Sonreal & Richkidd* – Hometown – The Closers ( Black Box )

Main Attrakionz – Wings – Bossalinis & Folliyones ( Young One )
DJ Vadim – I’m Feeling U – Don’t Be Scared ( BBE )
Klassik – URNextMove – In The Making ( Self-Released )
Politic Live* – Wanty Wanty – Ellipsis ( Music For Mavericks )

The Souljazz Orchestra* – Kelen Ati Leen – Solidarity ( Strut )
Karthala 72 – Dans Le Couer du Feu – Diable Du Feu! ( Electric Cowbell )
Maceo Parker – Soul Power – Soul Classics ( Razor & Tie )

Bruce Springsteen – The E Street Shuffle – The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle ( Columbia )
Albert King – Playing on Me – The Complete Stax/Volt Singles ( Stax )

Bettye LaVette – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere – Thankful N’ Thoughtful ( Anti- )